For Day 15 of the build-in-public series on a $0-sales Apify actor, I stopped writing my own article and posted two comments on other people's posts instead. Then I started a 30-minute timer to watch what happens.
This is the log.
Why two comments instead of one Day 15
Day 14 confessed that 19 dev.to articles in 14 days produced 184 readers, 1 reaction, 0 new followers, 0 sales. The dev.to feed algorithm has decided I do not exist. Publishing a 20th article into a feed that does not surface me is busywork dressed up as work.
But the readers who did land on my posts came from somewhere. The dashboard shows 30 from bing.com, 2 from dev.to internal, 162 from "all other external referrers." Direct shares, RSS aggregators, comment trails — the third bucket is the unknown.
